Music Video Analysis:

In class, as a group we analysed The Avalanches music video called the Frontier Psychiatrist. Here is my work:

Frontier Psychiatrist- The Avalanches 

Analysis-

Connie:

Music:

There are horse noise sound effects synced with a shot of a woman hitting a horse with a stick. This will entertain the audience and set a comical and not-very-serious fee; to the video.

There are "tundra/avalanche" sound effects synced with a shot of a t.v playing and avalanche as well as lyrics stating that there is an avalanche, this will be used to keep the audience guessing about its significants and therefore engaging them to watch on.

C-U:

The use of Close-up's breaks the conventions band CU's and instead shows obscure props. This might be to demon-straight how unstable the video of a "Frontier Psychiatrist" the fact that the song title and lyrics give reference to Psychiatry might mean that these shots are used to create an unstable world abit like the mind frame of a person that a psychiatrist might need to help.

Kieran:

Genre:

This still shows the conventions of the genre of the music as it is in a DJ mash-up style and this is reflected with lots of characters from different time periods and different cultures.

The lyric here is "Dexter is Criminally insane".

This is the last spoken part before the song begins and could be an explanation of why the video is so abstract as we are looking at it from Dexter's perspective








This image sticks with the surrealism of the piece but shows the genre with a 'DJ' remixing a vinyl track

This image is reflective of the lyric as it is "you're crazy as a coconut" with the coconut saying it which is 'crazy' in its self.

Fire Starter- Prodigy

Connie:

Genre:

The genre is punk and punks are associated with hanging around in remote area so by using the location of an tunnel in this video the director is reenforcing music genre stereotypes.
The costume also represented the Genre as the artist is wearing baggy clothes with out-there-hair and facial piercing and jewelry all of this mise-en-scene is commonly associated with the punk genre.

Lyrics:

The lyrics state that the artist is a fire starter and the use of fire in some shots show this in a literal sense. Yet, this could be interpreted to mean that the artist believes that he is bad news and does things deemed bad in society and the fact that some shots show the artist demonstraighting aggressive and rebellious behavior reenforces this interpretation.

Kieran:

The music is reflected in his actions as they start off in slow motion with the slow intro and as soon as the drum track kicks in he head bangs aggressively

His is very expressive of the type of music as it is aggressive electronic punk and he shows this off with his costume - his piercings, outrageous hair styles etc.

This still is also very representative of how the director uses close-ups as the editing is jumpy going very quickly from long shots to close ups to get the lead singer right in your face to show his anger and aggression.